“…Three varieties of patient-based predictors of outcome studies are included in this special section: studies of patient-based pretreatment predictors of treatment outcome (Crits-Christoph et al, 2007;Dinger, Strack, Leichsenring, & Schauenburg, 2007;Halvorsen & Monsen, 2007;Hartman, Wirth, & Zeeck, 2007;Hilsenroth, 2007;Høglend, Johansson, Marble, Bøgwald, & Amlo, 2007;Zuroff et al, 2007); a study of patient-based pretreatment predictors of in-treatment outcome (Comninos & Grenyer, 2007); and a study of patient-based pretreatment predictors of in-treatment process variable alliance (Saatsi, Hardy, & Cahill, 2007).…”